Remove a page they said...

Hey everyone!

I've took it upon me to try and fix a bug in Webmaker with the login screen where a page was redundant and they thought it should be removed. I eventually found the hidden page, but when I asked if they would like the page to be removed, I found out that the issue lie in the webmaker_login_ux. 

From there it I tried to find the source of the bug, there's an area in Webmaker that has a boolean value which when set to false, it should not show the page, it was set to false, but alas the page still reared it's ugly head. 

After checking and trying different 'fixes' I wasn't able to solve the problem, but I wont stop believing that I can do it. Hopefully after I'm done exams I can finish this bug and keep contributing to the Open Source community, it's been fun! 

Cheers, 

James Laverty

Android in Webmaker!

Hey everyone,

I just added source maps to Browserify. It was a very challenging process, because I talked to several different sources in the industry and the majority that I talked to had no idea what I was talking about. It was interesting because I ended up going out to lunch with people that were professionals in Java/Android, web development and PaaS. It was a fantastic experience, but it ended up in me being made fun of for asking question about Source maps and maybe I'm confused about my College lingo.

I find Open Source development very exciting, but to contrast it, I find doing it within a timeline terrifying, unless you have contacts within whatever you are trying develop.

This course, and my professor David Humphrey, have taught me a lot. Lets keep it going,

Cheers,

James Laverty

Attempting to install Chromium

Imagine waking up to a knocking at your door <knock knock> <knock knock> . You get up, dress yourself and approach half sleeping, pull the door open and look with your eyes half open, see a soldier marked UPS. After a shake of your head you realize it's just a deliveryman and get excited with the remembrance of the laptop you ordered two weeks ago!

Start it up, share a moment of unbridled joy as it starts instantaneously, then weep as the hard drive dies like a car accident gone terribly wrong. <knock knock> The laptops been replaced!

Now to where I was two weeks ago, I was with my new computer and a newbie guide to Open Source, I had eyes bright and spirits high. Like a land slide my hopes started to fade, I had error after error, but kept on going.

I attempted to install it for approximately 5-7 hours. After that I left it running overnight, it probably did not take to long, but it failed. When I woke up I tried it again, it failed again.Eventually I ended up in the land of rebase and I felt defeated. I was worried about starting over again as well as to rebase.

I decided on attempting to install Lynx, and things went far smoother,          

Cheers ,

James Laverty